War by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

War by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Tensions escalate between Tate and Joanne after their mother has a stroke. As they attack each other in their mother’s hospital room, they are ambushed by two strangers who make a shocking claim about their grandfather during WW2.  With bold theatricality and disarming humour, WAR follows a fractured family as its members navigate the landmines of the past and try to broker peace with each other – and themselves – in the present.

 

First Preview May 21, 2016

Opening Night Jun 06, 2016

The Claire Tow Theater

Cast

Austin Durant

LCT: War Horse. Theater: Hamlet, Death of a Salesman, Passion Play, American Night: The Ballad of Juan José (Yale Repertory Theatre); Anna Christie (Old Globe); A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Intiman Theatre); The Illusion, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Oklahoma! (Berkshire Theatre Festival); The Fantasticks (Mum Puppet Theatre). TV: “Nurse Jackie,” “Person of Interest.” Education: BA, Temple University; MFA, Yale School of Drama. Recipient of 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellow.
Reggie Gowland

LCT: 4000 Miles.  Off-Broadway: The Comedy of Errors (The Public).  Regional: The Fox on the Fairway (George Street Playhouse), 4000 Miles (A.C.T.), Red (Boise Contemporary Theater), The Taming of the Shrew (Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater Festival).  Film: Rover. TV: “Unforgettable,” “Evan and Gareth Are Trying to Get Laid.” Education: Northwestern University.

Chris Myers

LCT3: brownsville song (b-side for tray). Off-Broadway: Whorl Inside a Loop (Second Stage), Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout), An Octoroon (Obie Award; Soho Rep.), Honky, Alondra Was Here, Phoebe in Winter, As Himself/10×25, Macbeth. Regional: Fences, The Golden Dragon, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Youth Ink Festival.  Other theater: Uncle Vanya, Arms and the Man, Othello, The Crucible, Hurt Village, Book of Days, The Cold Front, The Americans (Juilliard). Film: EVOL, Post-Emma. TV: VH1’s “The Breaks.” Education: The Juilliard School, British American Drama Academy. chrismyersinc.com
Rachel Nicks

Off-Broadway: And I and Silence (Signature), The Good Negro (The Public).  Film:Ball Don’t Lie. TV: “Life Support” (HBO films), “The Affair,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Crossing Jordan.” Education: The Juilliard School.
Lance Coadie Williams

LCT: Shows for Days. Theater: Bootycandy (Obie Award; Playwrights Horizons, Wilma Theater, Woolly Mammoth); The Convert (Wilma Theater); Sucker Punch; Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet (Studio Theatre); The Oedipus Plays (Shakespeare Theatre, Athens, Greece Tour); Fences (Round House); Hamlet (Baltimore Shakespeare Festival); My Children! My Africa!, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Children’s Hour, Fences (Everyman Theatre).  TV: “The Wire.”
Charlayne Woodard

LCT3: Stunning. Broadway: Ain’t Misbehavin’. Off-Broadway: The Substance of Fire; The Witch of Edmonton (Obie Award); Suzan-Lori Parks’ In The Blood (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination); Fabulation, Or the Re-Education of Undine; In Real Life(Audelco, Backstage West Garland, NAACP awards; DD, Outer Critics Circle noms.); Sorrows & Rejoicings (Audelco Award); The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Film:Things Never Said, Unbreakable, The Crucible, Eye for an Eye. TV: “Chasing Life,” “The Leftovers,” “The Blacklist,” “Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story,” Oprah Winfrey’s “The Wedding,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “ER,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”

Creative

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins – Playwright

Plays include Gloria (Pulitzer Prize finalist; Vineyard), Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature), Neighbors (The Public), An Octoroon (Obie Award; Soho Rep., Theatre for a New Audience).  Currently a Residency Five playwright at the Signature Theatre.  Under commissions from LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Recent Honors include Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Education: M.A. in Performance Studies, NYU; Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School.  Currently teaches in the Hunter College Playwriting M.F.A. Program, where he is a Master-Artist-in-Residence.
Lileana Blain-Cruz – Director

Theater includes War (Yale Rep.); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (Soho Rep.); Red Speedo (NYTW); a new translation of The Bakkhai (Fisher Center at Bard College);Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Christina Anderson’sHollow Roots (Under the Radar Festival, The Public); Project Realms (La Sala); A Guide to Kinship and Maybe Magic (with choreographer Isabel Lewis and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; Dance New Amsterdam).  Yale School of Drama: Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, The Taming of the Shrew, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, Buffalo Maine, Cavity, Fox Play (Carlotta Festival of New Plays).  Upcoming: Salome (Governor’s Island), Suzan Lori-Parks’ Death of the Last Black in the Whole Entire World(Signature).  She was one of the co-artistic directors of the 2011-2012 Yale Cabaret and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.  Education: Princeton University; M.F.A. in directing, Yale School of Drama.
Mimi Lien – Set Designer

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